People in movies always run AWAY from the fireball.

Chagen

Instead of just sidestepping it.

Seriously, in like half of the cases of Outrun The Fireball, they would have avoided it much easier if they simply moved to the side.

Bob

Or ducked.

Vorpy

Or just got obliterated by the fireball so the movie would be over and I could go home.

RocketDude

^Ah, but that's not how Hollywood rolls.

DYRE

Sidestepping things is boring.

Protagonists dying anticlimactically is also boring.

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I'd be more interested in diving into the fireball and coming out from the other side alive.

Assuming they don't die right after because their ship overheated and crashes or something.

Also I think cases where boulders are chasing them are better for sidestepping.

Speaking of that I want to see someone jumping over the chasing boulders too.

CommandoDude

Lololol! Lets run AWAY from the train! Instead of GET OFF THE FUCKING TRACKS.

Hollywood is so fucking stupid. All of them.

Except Pixar.

DonZabu

You know what I'd like to see? Our kung-fu action hero is in the kitchen, sharpening a butcher knife with a steel. Then the bad guys bust in, and what's the first thing our guy does? Put the knife into the cutting board and attack the bad guys with the steel.

FrodoGoofballCoTV

In Independence Day, Will Smith's love interest does sidestep the fireball.

From Tremors 2, sidestepping bad, hiding in a trench good.

Tnu1138

you know if I ever make a movie Iplan on actually subverting this.

Icalasari

...How do you sidestep an explosion?

Chagen

I meant when they have an object barreling towards them. They can usually duck/sidestep it, but they never do.

Icalasari

Oh. In that case then... It still wouldn't do much depending on the shrapnel, actually

Chagen

It'd be better than letting it hit you.